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[ Read More...]Guest Blog – On a Book Tour with a Teen
Hello everyone! We are excited to welcome Brooklynite writer and filmmaker Peter von Ziegesar who wrote his entry while on a recent Reading Tour to Kansas City with his kids. Nostalgic…informative…take it away Peter: July 7-14th This week I fly to Kansas City to do a reading of my book The Looking Glass Brother: A […]
[ Read More...]Scott Elliott guest blogs on BOOK TOURS WITH KIDS – part 2
Here is the second of a three-part guest blog by Scott Eliott, who lives and teaches in Walla Walla, Washington. Scott is the father of two boys and two books, Coiled in the Heart and Temple Grove: A Novel. Click here for his bio. Tell us more about your recent book tour with the […]
[ Read More...]Scott Elliott guest blogs on BOOK TOURS WITH KIDS – Part 1
Hi everyone! Hope you are having a great summer with kids in camp, coming home sun-warmed and tired and sleeping soundly through the night. We are judging the Fellowship entries while we are on hiatus from Salons and let me tell you – there is some stiff competition this year! Meanwhile – we are […]
[ Read More...]Do you need an extension?
As someone who often writes under a deadline, I have been using homework assignments to try to teach my kids the value of pacing oneself. I started college as the kid who finished all her assignments at 4am on the day they were due (I also used to suck on my used tea bags to […]
[ Read More...]Crossword Poetry – guest blog by Brooklyn poet, Peter Valentine
Not every writer who is a Pen Parentis Author has four novels and an NEA grant. A lot of us are writers with day-jobs to support a family, who simply can’t live without our creative outlet. Here’s a guest-blog from a terrific poet, Peter Valentine, whose daily crossword-poetry is a wonderful example of threading a […]
[ Read More...]Get Motivated
I am in a creative slump right now. Not because I have no ideas; I have plenty. I also have two kids in school giving me enough time to write, should I wish to do so. Tell me then, what’s the hideous sluglike thing wrapping itself around my brain and slowing me down? Is it […]
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